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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Joseph Mifsud exemplifies stench of the so-called UK-US 'special relationship' in which UK political types apparently have no interest in their own country so are intricately involved assisting US shadow governments desperate to silence the American people. Our Deep State slave masters will pair with anyone these days-Disobedient Media

This writer’s interest in Mifsud and in turn, the Trump-Russia collusion narrative, was heightened by a Twitter threadon
the subject published by WikiLeaks Editor-In-Chief Julian Assange
shortly before Ecuador cut off his connection to the outside world.

The event
took place in 2012 – a significant date because, at that time, Claire
Smith was a member of the UK intelligence security vetting panel.

2017, Mifsud w. Boris Johnson

As Blackburn informed us, there is more to this story than is told by
that single photograph, or by theOctober 2017 photograph of Mifsud
standing with UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. The following
discussion took place electronically."...

(continuing): ..............."Disobedient Media asked Chris [Blackburn] to explain the process of his research into Joseph Mifsud’s most important ties:

Chris Blackburn:“When Joseph Mifsud’s name was leaked by The Washington Postas
being the ‘professor’ named in George Papadopoulos’ court papers,
bloggers and journalists took to Twitter to try to understand who he
was. Everyone was looking for connections to Russia. They quickly found
them. The London Centre for International Law Practice (LCILP) had been
working on hosting financial sanctions workshops, and LINK Campus in Rome and the London Academy of Diplomacy (LAD) had provided a vehicle for Mifsud to make connections with Russian universities and academics.”

“Before the story broke, I had heard of the London Centre for International Law Practice (LCILP)
where George Papadopoulos and Mifsud both worked. The relatively new
legal firm had been trying to move into the Countering Violent Extremism
(CVE) sector in the UK. They had done some research into ISIS
territorial gains in the Middle East and wrote a widely circulated
report on the group.They also hosted a few seminars with [UK] Foreign
Office types on terrorism. LCILP had also tried to reach out to a couple
of Bangladeshi activists working on the Bangladesh War Crimes
Tribunals. I didn’t think much of it, but I couldn’t ignore it. Why
would a suspected Russian intelligence front try to engage with
Bangladesh’s War Crimes Tribunal from London?”...

Mifsud worked with diplomats and NATO allies, so they would need to
know the potential damage he had caused. I found that two of Joseph
Mifsud’s closest colleagues, who the FBI would have designated as
high-frequency, were Claire Smith and Gianni Pittella. They had followed him between LAD [London Academy of Diplomacy], Stirling University and LINK Campus in Rome. Claire Smith was a former member of Britain’s Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC). As a team, Smith and Mifsud trained Italian law enforcement on
intelligence at LINK Campus in Rome. LINK Campus’ ties to the Italian
Foreign Ministry and intelligence agencies had been quickly skimmed over
by The Washington Post, The New York Times, Buzzfeed and The Guardian.”

“Gianni Pittella has
known Mifsud for a while. They met at the European Parliament and have
collaborated on numerous projects together. In July 2016, Pittella gave a rousing speechat
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign launch in Philadelphia, calling
Donald Trump ‘a virus’ which needed to be stopped, while his close
collaborator Mifsud was supposedly helping Trump’s campaign to conspire
with Russia. If the FBI had been doing a proper investigation into
Joseph Mifsud,these two connections should have raised red flags
immediately.”...

“While other researchers were looking into Mifsud’s academic links to
Russia, I decided to conduct a more wide-ranging investigation.The London Academy of Diplomacy was
being built up in the press as a shady operation. It wasn’t. British
diplomats and Foreign Office ministers often visited LAD. Sir Tony
Baldry, Alok Sharma MP and former Foreign Secretary William Hague all visited LAD or spoke at their conferences.”

“If Mifsud was working with western intelligence agencies that would
be rather pertinent in an espionage scandal.Italian journalists have
been slow to pick up the story, but they are now calling LINK Campus the
‘007 university’ because Vincenzo Scotti,
a former Italian Foreign Minister, and director at LINK University, has
been trying to defend himself from suggestions he’s in Russia or the
CIA’s pocket.”

“The venue for the alleged acts of treachery involving Papadopoulos
and Mifsud– LINK Campus Rome – should have set alarm bells ringing for
the FBI’s counter-intelligence investigators. The CIA has a long history
of working there. David Ignatius of The Washington Post even wrote about a CIA-sponsored event he attended at LINK Campus in 2004.”

“The FBI’s Legat [Legal Attache office] in Rome also sends its agents
to train Italian and Maltese law enforcement at the small private
campus. Mifsud had worked at LINK Campus for quite some time.Before the
story broke in August last year, Mifsud had been working with CNN’s
Freedom Project to host a televised debate on modern slavery. After
Mifsud had been named, CNN continued with the event. Richard Quest
hosted while one of Mifsud’s colleagues, Franco Frattini, acted as one of the panelists.”.................."Disobedient Media asked Chris for his thoughts on why multiple red
flags easily spotted by due diligence may have been missed regarding
Mifsud, intentionally or otherwise.

“After Mifsud allegedly engaged George Papadopoulos in trying to set
him up with allegedly stolen data,he went on to host conferences with
US Treasury officials, ex-CIA agents, congressmen and State Department
officials in numerous venues.If the investigation were genuine, US
authorities would have alerted the British government and the Italian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mifsud would not have been able to get into a position to be photographed with the British Foreign Secretary Boris
Johnson if he was a security threat or an agent of influence.”

“Mifsud still hasn’t been named by Special Counsel Robert Mueller or
indicted by his team. The first time an official named him was when Rep.
Adam Schiff (D), the minority chairman of the House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), mentioned him in a rebuttal to the
majority memo on FISA abuses in the FBI and Department of Justice
(DOJ).”

“There are enough red flags here to suggest that Mifsud was
potentially tied to efforts to kick-start a phony investigation that was
designed to be leaked to the American press. Peter Strzok, the
counter-intelligence official that started the Joseph Mifsud
investigation, has been demoted and removed from Mueller’s investigative
team. Mifsud is a mystery to people that can’t be bothered to look, but
many journalists are aware of his links.”

“They don’t want to ruin a narrative. Trump is a divisive figure, but
if we let intelligence officials illegally taint and sabotage
candidates in a democratic election, it sets a dangerous precedent. Sir
Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, has previously stepped into
contemporary politics to malign Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Her
Majesty’s Opposition, and the Liberal Democrats during British
elections. He guided Christopher Steele on his strategy with his
infamous dossier. It’s a trend which needs to be addressed.”

“For those that still believe we are living in democratic, free and
open societies it is sadly starting to look like fantasy. Democracies
flourish when the checks and balances in the system are robust. We need
them to work now more than ever.”

............[Elizabeth Vos] As a closing thought on Blackburn’s findings, it’s important to set
the exposure of Mifsud’s ties to the UK establishment and intelligence
communityinto context.

Julian Assange brought this matter to the public’s attention just
before being silenced by the Ecuadorian government. Although this
particular story is most likely not causative in terms of Assange being
relegated to solitary confinement, it
is important to remember Assange’s interest in Mifsud’s ties to UK
intelligence. It is one among many subjects that Assange has been
prevented from discussing at the time of writing.

Ultimately, Disobedient Media’s previous coverage of Mifsud’s links
to UK intelligence and Chris Blackburn’s thorough research suggest that
the same interests involved in the fabrication of Russian hacking
fingerprints via the anonymous Guccifer 2.0 persona are associated with
the concoction of faulty evidence for the Trump-Russia collusion
narrative.

Even reports casting Mifsudas a Russian intelligence asset do not object to the conclusion
that Mifsud worked as a spy.Their claim simply depicts him as working
for the wrong master, and in so-doing, rests the beating heart of the
Trump-Russia collusion scandal on a single inaccurate premise. In
exposing this sleight of hand, Chris Blackburn, Julian Assange, and
others have debunked a narrative which, if successful, could have
fatally raised tensions between two nuclear powers already facing off on
the geopolitical playing field.